In the 1980s/early 1990s when HyperCard was king, that would have made sense. And in the late 1990s/early 2000s when Applescript was a thing people cared about, too. But yes, for the last twenty years or so, English-like programming languages weren't the thing.
; in: THE 'END
; (THE 'END)
;
; caught ERROR:
; Error while parsing arguments to special operator THE:
; too few elements in
; ('END)
; to satisfy lambda list
; (VALUE-TYPE FORM):
; exactly 2 expected, but got 1
